Blush & Blink by Ana Carrete

Blush & Blink is what happens when you go to catholic school for 12+ years, and develop a very dark sense of humor. Sex becomes sexier because it's forbidden. It's not memoir, but it reads like flashbacks. Everything is a joke. Everything is serious. It's paranoia and sleep paralysis. It's all in six chapters of two mutually inconsistent narrative forms. It's pretty bows made of barbwire. It's a blindfold. Ana Carrete writes funny, spunky horror. She wants you to rebel.  Praise for Blush and Blink:  “Modern, mischievous, and intimate. Ana Carrete is a poet at the peak of her powers.” — Timothy Willis Sanders, author of Modern Massacres “Ana Carrete was making poems on the internet before you even knew what a poem on the internet was or could be. A true progenitor, this is not poetry as hustle or grift, for clout or (eugh) career, but as a last resort, the original instant gratification, redemption and sin. It is a spiral that saves you and also fucks you up, a way of praying and cu